The RIAA's Threat!

M

macgeek_spiro

Registered
Hello. I'll start off by saying that RIAA(Recording Industry Accociation of America) is thinking the right way about file sharing. They feel it is hurting the record industry and yes, I too agree, because of Kazaa and other P2P network clients, the record lables bleed. I am the type of person that buys every bit of music I listen to. I download nothing, no software, nothing. Because I don't steal. Now I can see the reason people do download, cause heck, IT'S FREE! Everyone want's free stuff. You could say I'm ANTI-P2P. But the threat that the RIAA poses is something even I would never say. They are currently trying to pass a law in the United States and soon to Canada that anyone caught download music(even one song) will be charged a quarter million dollar fine. Yes that's right! $250 000. Plus a 10 year prison sentance. As Patrick Norton off of The Screen Savers(TECHTV) said, you get more time and fine for downloading a song now a days than you do for armed robbery. Now that's sad. Even worse, they are going through your ISP's and digging up personal information just to bust you. Now that is dumb. And the threat they pose is a joke now. The RIAA is stupid. And I think they should find a better way to deal with things. But look, why would I say that, I thought I'm ANTI-P2P. Well I guess that shows how dumb it really is. What do you think?
 
Welcome to macosx.com, spiro! :)

Huh!? Downloading a song gives probably a bigger trouble than killing a non-white person. They are exagerating "a bit".
 
Oh, so I'm getting the firing squad for stealing a Milky Way?

Come on! Congress would never approve a law like this, or I will never vote for anyone who does. I'm not saying it's right to be doing this, even if I do use Limewire to download MP3's, but if the RIAA would shape up people might be more willing to buy music instead of downloading it. The more extreme measures they take, the more people hate them, and the worse the situation gets.
 
Just another reason im glad i don't live in the crazy US of A. It's even legal to sell XBOX/etc chips here :D
 
Yeah. It never got passes yet but they are looking to get it passed. Plus, armed robbery you don't kill someone. You threaten to kill them for cash. You take cash then leave. That's how it goes. Oh yeah and they go though your ISP's and when they get to your house they'll demand to look at EVERYTHING that was ever on your hard drive. No privacy god damn f**kin' world eh!
 
Pengu help me find the chips for Xbox ... :D

NEver say "congress would never pass the law". Look on what Disney's done. Look what the dopyrights are now (for stories they stole from public domain) and look on all the other dumb laws.

It just makes no sense that you get less $$$ to pay and less years in prison for killing a person (in the racistic world: a non-white person..) than downloading an mp3. Maybe we should kill the RIAA executives.
 
It means "jaguar" in Italian, and she doesn't divulge her location (but I think she's somewhere in or around Arizona).

I like that word, "dopywright." Very fitting.
 
I thought Giaguara was in Italy or Latin America. Reminds me of that "Where do the Simpsons" live topic that was on here a few months ago.
 
Well been there and there and there... In the digi photo thread someone figured where I am or was I think ... "Fire" ;) .. and maybe the Macosx.com fantasy football could include the same hint.. "Jagw-Fire" :p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top